Medical statistics from scratch
Subtitle: an introduction for health professionals
By: David Bowers.
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Chichester, England; Hoboken, NJ
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780470513019
Subjects: Medical statistics; Medicine -- Research -- Statistical methods; Biometry; Statistics -- methods
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Some fundamental stuff; title: First things first : the nature of data; title: Describing data with tables; title: Describing data with charts; title: Describing data from its distributional shape; title: Describing data with numeric summary values; title: Doing it right first time : designing a study; title: From samples to populations : making inferences; title: Chance would be a fine thing - probability, risk and odds; title: Estimating the value of a single population parameter; title: Estimating the differences between two population parameters; title: Estimating the ratio of two population parameters; title: Testing hypotheses about the difference between two population parameters; title: Testing hypotheses about the ratio of two population parameters; title: Testing hypotheses about the equality of two or more proportions; title: Measuring the association between two variables; title: Measuring the agreement between two variables; title: Straight-line models - linear regression; title: Curvy models - logistic regression; title: Measuring survival; title: Systematic review and meta-analysis.